"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy ... time to develop unique shapes and features like spiral arms. In the early universe, galaxies were ...

The James Webb Telescope has spotted a massive spiral galaxy, and its extreme age could challenge current understanding of ...

Unless one is a scientist or a teacher of the sciences, it would be understandable if a person may not be familiar with ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped. Researchers just ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy as part of the PANORAMIC survey. The newfound galaxy, named ...

Messier 81, a grand design spiral galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) / Wikimedia Commons The Webb Space ...

Bright-blue stars define the galaxy's spiral arms, along with lacy reddish-brown dust clouds and pink star-forming regions. The spiral galaxy NGC 5643 is located roughly 40 million light-years ...

Riess, D. Thilker, D. De Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643 ...